G’mar chatimah tovah to everyone observing Yom Kippur. May you have a meaningful day of reflection and an easy fast.

My new article, "An Enemy From Within” is now live. I analyze Donald Trump’s recent address to our nation's military leaders and the dangerous demand for personal loyalty over constitutional duty. A line has been crossed, and the integrity of our democracy is at stake.

Let's be clear: Donald Trump CHOSE this shutdown. He'd rather hold the country hostage than fund healthcare for millions. Every hardworking federal employee without a paycheck knows who to thank.

Donald Trump and congressional republicans clearly can’t govern. They are entirely responsible for this shutdown.

A picture is worth a thousand words. As Donald Trump delivered a rambling, hyper-political speech, America's top military leaders sat in disciplined, stone-faced silence. Their professionalism stood in stark contrast to the partisan rally they were forced to attend. And their faces say it all.

It sure would be nice to live in precedented times for a change.

Donald Trump told America's top generals: If you disagree with me and leave the room, "there goes your rank, there goes your future." This isn't leadership. It's a threat. He doesn't want a military loyal to the Constitution, he wants one loyal only to him. Yet another red line for our democracy.

Donald Trump cut funding for pediatric cancer research.

The Republican Party controls the White House and Congress. If the government shuts down, they deserve every ounce of blame. Full stop.

Whatever happened to the 200 tariff deals that Donald Trump told us he made?

You know we’re living in the upside down when the president is more concerned about windmills and Tylenol than he is about assault weapons.

In my new Substack essay I argue that the Anchorage summit wasn’t just a gaffe — it was a geopolitical green light that helped embolden Putin and accelerated attacks across Europe and Ukraine; read From Anchorage to Anarchy and why Trump’s spectacle costs lives:

“At the time, many of us recognized the summit for what it was—a reckless display of amateur diplomacy .. “But hindsight has clarified .. it was worse than a blunder. .. A green light .. and handed Vladimir Putin the legitimacy of a bilateral ..” @andrewjweinstein.com substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The moment Donald Trump welcomed Vladimir Putin on U.S. soil, we knew the result would be bad. Now, in hindsight, it’s clear it was a diplomatic disaster. My latest in Substack: how the 2025 Alaska summit helped shape a more dangerous world.

24 Ukrainian pensioners killed. 800 drones launched in one night. NATO airspace violated. These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re the result of Donald Trump's disastrous foreign policy. My latest: how the 2025 Alaska summit helped shape a more dangerous world.

Unprepared, unserious, and completely unhinged. By every conceivable measure, Donald Trump has decimated American leadership on the world stage.

Release the Epstein files.

I'm launching a new Substack to share analysis from my experiences at the intersection of law, policy, and diplomacy. “Moral Clarity” is a space to tackle the big issues: defending democracy, fighting hate, and pursuing justice. Subscribe for free and become a founding member of the conversation.

Donald Trump's 2025 United Nations speech wasn't just a performance—it was a dangerous act of diplomatic vandalism. “America First" is quickly becoming America Alone, and our rivals are taking note. Read more on my Substack.

Finally got around to launching my Substack today. I hope you’ll consider following along!

As a former U.S. Public Delegate to the UN, I watched Donald Trump’s speech with profound concern. He treats alliances as transactions and diplomacy as a reality show. This isn't strength; it's a reckless retreat from the world stage. My thoughts:

Channel the energy you used to get Jimmy Kimmel back on the air into getting more Democrats elected.

Wishing a happy, healthy and sweet New Year to everyone celebrating Rosh Hashanah. Shana Tovah!

It’s no accident that Donald Trump posted a seemingly private message to Pam Bondi on Truth Social. He’s trying to send a message that he can practice his corruption out in the open and there’s nothing we can do about it.

The unraveling is accelerating

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

Don’t forget that a small handful of Republicans in the House and Senate can put a stop to all of this.

Barack Obama has been extremely cautious about using his voice to comment on most of the issues facing America since his presidency. The fact that he has been raising it so frequently lately should tell you something.

If only Republicans felt the same way about the Second Amendment as they clearly do about the First.

Colbert/Kimmel ‘28

Proud to share my new op-ed in TIME magazine: "Antisemitism in the Shadow of a Justified Outrage." Amid rightful anger over Gaza's crisis, we can't ignore rising antisemitism. Let's build solidarity through empathy.

For the first time in history, a majority of American Jews are changing their behavior out of fear. This isn't a myth; it's a crisis. Read my op-ed in TIME magazine on what we lose when we treat empathy as if it were conditional or zero-sum.

Everyday gun violence deserves our attention too.

Only in America is the report of children being shot at school knocked out of the news by another shooting on the same day.

Common sense gun safety reforms won’t solve all of our problems, but they sure would be a good place to start.

Gun violence is never the answer.

The fact that this is not surprising makes it no less horrifying.

Let’s not tell the petty, vindictive, and increasingly unstable guy who controls the nuclear codes that Barack Obama just won another Emmy.

The impending healthcare disaster caused by RFK Jr. was entirely predictable. And Donald Trump and his enablers should bear the blame.

When unions are strong, our communities and our country are strong. Every person in our nation has benefited from the labor movement. This Labor Day, we celebrate the workers and unions who have fought for fair wages, safe workplaces, and sick leave for all of us.

Seems like a good day for a reminder about the thousands of lawsuits against Donald Trump and his companies, millions in fines for unpaid work, 24 violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, countless liens for stiffing contractors, and 4 corporate bankruptcies.

Let’s be blunt: the president who cut pediatric cancer research isn’t going to do anything to prevent kids from being shot in school either. Our children deserve so much better than Donald Trump.

You’d think we could get bipartisan support for preventing and controlling disease, but in the Trump era even that’s controversial.

Other countries have crime and mental health challenges. What they don’t have is more guns than people. Only America has that. Enough with the excuses. It’s the guns.

Another community torn apart by senseless gun violence. My heart breaks for Minneapolis. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Nope, still not distracted. Release the Epstein files.

We really haven’t talked nearly enough about just how much of a disaster the Alaska summit was for Donald Trump and American leadership.

Why would Jim Jordan take the word of a convicted sex offender over the statement of a victim? Oh, wait…

For the January 6th mob: "Get-out-of-jail-free" cards. For American citizens on the streets of DC: Armed troops. This isn't law and order or leadership-it's authoritarianism. Call it what it is.